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Birchgrove market report SA7, Swansea
The standing SA7 (Birchgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,183 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA7 (Swansea) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SA7 (Swansea) home changed hands for £190,000 in 2026 (median of 65 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £217,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,183 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SA7 is a postcode district covering Birchgrove, Glais, Llansamlet in Swansea. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SA7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
SA7 sold prices: where the market stands
65 sales were registered in SA7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £190,000. The mean works out at £217,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SA7
The last five years of sales put SA7 at roughly £2,280 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SA7 33% below the national figure.
SA7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £192,200 | £196,796 | 176 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 186 |
| 2023 | £179,000 | £196,677 | 143 |
| 2022 | £184,000 | £215,761 | 221 |
| 2021 | £164,500 | £208,278 | 204 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 169 |
| 2019 | £148,500 | £194,648 | 214 |
| 2018 | £135,500 | £180,624 | 194 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 246 |
| 2016 | £144,000 | £201,457 | 299 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 231 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 200 |
| 2013 | £121,000 | £174,107 | 163 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 130 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 166 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 188 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 165 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 223 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 402 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 421 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 374 |
| 2004 | £123,000 | £223,392 | 569 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 485 |
| 2002 | £57,500 | £108,186 | 386 |
| 2001 | £54,500 | £104,773 | 346 |
| 2000 | £53,500 | £104,994 | 305 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 318 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 292 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 295 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 251 |
| 1995 | £42,800 | £93,041 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical SA7 home went from £42,800 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 104%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+64.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. In 2007, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £182,000 against £62,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SA7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £282,000 | 23 | 3,138 |
| Semi-detached | £178,800 | 28 | 3,104 |
| Terraced | £156,000 | 14 | 1,855 |
| Flats | £62,000 (2007) | – | 35 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 126 SA7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 411 sales a year before the financial crisis and 158 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SA7
SA7 falls under Swansea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,257 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the SA7 market
Only 126 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about SA7 (Birchgrove)
Are property prices falling in SA7 (Birchgrove)?
Is SA7 (Birchgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA7 (Birchgrove)?
Where do SA7 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SA7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SA7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 18 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the SA7 median sold price.
41% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Heol Camlan, Birchgrove, Swansea, SA7
- Golwg Y Coed, Birchgrove, Swansea
- Bevans Terrace, Llansamlet, Swansea
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SA7 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in SA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SA area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £225,000 | £300,000 (+33%) | £420,000 (+40%) | £518,750 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £152,000 | £168,000 (+11%) | £190,000 (+13%) | £268,000 (+41%) | £350,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £132,500 | £130,000 (-2%) | £148,670 (+14%) | £185,000 (+24%) | £270,000 (+46%) |
| Flat | £107,500 | £145,000 (+35%) | £222,500 (+53%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SA7 ranks 20 of 51 in the SA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SA7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA7 0 | £212,500 | 9 |
| SA7 9 | £184,200 | 56 |
How SA7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA7 itself, which ranks 35 of 51 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA42 | £345,000 | -6% |
| SA3 | £342,500 | +0% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA69 | £295,200 | -5% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA32 | £292,500 | -2% |
| SA63 | £290,000 | +3% |
| SA45 | £289,000 | +9% |
| SA67 | £288,500 | +22% |
| SA62 | £275,000 | +10% |
| SA68 | £270,000 | +15% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA34 | £268,000 | +3% |
| SA19 | £265,800 | +13% |
| SA33 | £263,500 | +12% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA44 | £246,800 | +7% |
| SA2 | £240,000 | +6% |
| SA46 | £238,000 | +6% |
| SA38 | £235,000 | -15% |
| SA37 | £230,000 | -26% |
| SA70 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SA7 (this report) | £190,000 | +16% |
Before you sell in SA7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SA7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.